Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losiukov said here Wednesday that the inspection of the nuclear facilities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea would not be discussed in the current Beijing six-party talks.

When and how to inspect is a "very complicated question", which will be left to later talks to address, sources quoted the head of Russian delegation as saying.

Losiukov cited the words of the DPRK delegation that the DPRK would abandon its nuclear program if the United States wrote it into legal document that it would not attack the DPRK, according to the sources.
 
(Xinhua News Agency August 28, 2003)